Today we live in an era of such rapid innovation, and the fashion industry is no exception. Remember when we were first introduced to social networks and actually saw how it all could smoothly work together and bring happy results to the fashion business? Well, there’s a lot more to come.
For me, this season was all about the phenomenon of selling clothes straight from the runway. What started as a whim has become a new reality—the customer doesn’t want to wait six months until her coveted pieces hit the stores, instead preferring to buy them the next day after they were all over Instagram.
There is no doubt nowadays that fashion designers should have an e-store, and in my opinion, in a couple of years (seasons, even?), runway commerce will be embraced by every proactive designer. It’s not only a great marketing tool, it is also a way of commercializing a runway presentation and bringing cash back after spending the money to produce a show.
The mass market has certainly influenced the pace of ready-to-wear, and there is no doubt the latter needs to answer the demands of the Instagram generation, who want to have everything, and at once.
Back in 2010, Burberry became a pioneer of “right after runway” sales and turned a new corner in fashion retail. This revolutionary strategy has not only helped the house to build up sales all over the world, but it has also notably increased its recognition and popularity. And that’s how the trend was born.
Then retailers followed. Now I see more and more stores selling pieces straight from the runway. I asked Andrea Panconesi, chief executive of Luisa Via Roma, who is very keen on new digital initiatives, to explain the rules of this new fashion reality: “We began the Buy It First project a few years ago when we started publishing new collections the day after the runway shows of about 10 designers. Clients could pre-order items the day after the show, and they received them when they were produced a few months later. We were the first to provide the service, and we did it primarily for the purpose of communication. Now other e-commerce sites are doing the same thing, so we took it one step further with LVR1ST—in particular with a special collaboration in which Fausto Puglisi created a numbered, limited-edition T-shirt exclusively for us. The T-shirt was part of his runway show and was made available to our clients the morning after the show. Furthermore, in the same project, there were capsule collections from different designers, like Moschino and Anthony Vaccarello for Versus Versace. In both cases, clients were able to purchase and receive items right after seeing them on the catwalk—before anyone else even had them online.”
Today we live in an era of such rapid innovation, and the fashion industry is no exception. Remember when we were first introduced to social networks and actually saw how it all could smoothly work together and bring happy results to the fashion business? Well, there’s a lot more to come.
For me, this season was all about the phenomenon of selling clothes straight from the runway. What started as a whim has become a new reality—the customer doesn’t want to wait six months until her coveted pieces hit the stores, instead preferring to buy them the next day after they were all over Instagram.
There is no doubt nowadays that fashion designers should have an e-store, and in my opinion, in a couple of years (seasons, even?), runway commerce will be embraced by every proactive designer. It’s not only a great marketing tool, it is also a way of commercializing a runway presentation and bringing cash back after spending the money to produce a show.
The mass market has certainly influenced the pace of ready-to-wear, and there is no doubt the latter needs to answer the demands of the Instagram generation, who want to have everything, and at once.
Back in 2010, Burberry became a pioneer of “right after runway” sales and turned a new corner in fashion retail. This revolutionary strategy has not only helped the house to build up sales all over the world, but it has also notably increased its recognition and popularity. And that’s how the trend was born.
Then retailers followed. Now I see more and more stores selling pieces straight from the runway. I asked Andrea Panconesi, chief executive of Luisa Via Roma, who is very keen on new digital initiatives, to explain the rules of this new fashion reality: “We began the Buy It First project a few years ago when we started publishing new collections the day after the runway shows of about 10 designers. Clients could pre-order items the day after the show, and they received them when they were produced a few months later. We were the first to provide the service, and we did it primarily for the purpose of communication. Now other e-commerce sites are doing the same thing, so we took it one step further with LVR1ST—in particular with a special collaboration in which Fausto Puglisi created a numbered, limited-edition T-shirt exclusively for us. The T-shirt was part of his runway show and was made available to our clients the morning after the show. Furthermore, in the same project, there were capsule collections from different designers, like Moschino and Anthony Vaccarello for Versus Versace. In both cases, clients were able to purchase and receive items right after seeing them on the catwalk—before anyone else even had them online.”
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